Show POLL TA M TAX PRESENTS NEW MEN PROBLEMS TO OFFICIALS All who dislike paying poll tax may k take on new hope Although thO the su supreme preme court has hh declared that the poll tax lax ax law Is constitutional the dt city commission commission com com- mission Is evidently trOt not anxious that It being enforced In the opinion Of ct tho the city ity attorney it In is not Ot mandatory m that It t be enforced and ho has so 80 informed ho tho members of th the city commission i Som Somehow how I have hav always looked 1 upon the he poll IOU tax as an imposition and I would bo ho In favor of oC abolishing it en- en Irely bald Commissioner Con R R. P. P Morne Morris Morris Mor Mor- ris ne this morning If tho the law had been beon held ni my feelings feel I rips would not have been Injured in the least leant remarked Com Com- Commissioner missioner Henry W. W Lawrence According to tho th hi city records it has usually cost all aU the tho w way from 40 to 50 SQ per PeT cent of or tho the poll Jolt tax to collect it It which means ns that the tho cl city's s 's not net Income from this source has annually llY averaged d donly only about or l It IB Is evidently evi evi- vl- vl denU dently the opinion of or the cl city official that the game gama IB is not snot worth th the candle cl A letter addressed d to th the tho city elty commission corn com omI I mission by Clark L L. Whitney city olty 11 It t c cense assessor and nd collector advises S I J that bod body of ot tho the action of or th the supreme i I court and asks that he be bo n Instructed ru t d ns as to his duties In this 1 regard The letter will r receive lve the consideration consider of ot the commission Monday night Tho The county commissioners h have e risked the county attorney for his opinion The ell city collects its poll 1011 t tel tax X under r It Us Its own r regulations but tho the county by law lawIs Is 18 compelled to Bond send out O notices notice be before for April 1 1 If JC notices cannot b bel out after April 1 tho the county count will b to collect this years year's poll tax |